Thanks for the heads up. As a matter of curiosity, is it possible for you to share a comparison of the regular framing and the cropping please? I’m in the UK and so can’t access Hulu, as I don’t have my proxy at the moment. Otherwise I’d have a go myself.
I’ll try to get a screengrab later, but it appears to just have the ends chopped off so there is no letterboxing. They do this for US TV broadcasts as well, but have always used the blu-ray transfer.